BY ESTHER WICKHAM FOR THE CENTER SQUARE The San Francisco Unified School District faces issues with its payroll system, as some educators aren’t getting paid.  As SFUSD heads into the 2025-26 school year, about 100 educators have said they have had problems with their paychecks.  “I’m ashamed that that’s my employer,” said Margaret

By Alexei Koseff, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters The fight over redistricting is about to hit overdrive in California. As the Legislature returns to Sacramento today for the final month of session, Democrats are racing to finish a plan that could tilt the state’s congressional map in their favor —

On 7 August 2025, the Trump regime announced that products from the European Union, Japan and South Korea would be subject to tariff rates of at least ten percent. Specifically, goods from the European Union, Japan and South Korea will be taxed at 15%, while imports from Taiwan, Vietnam and Bangladesh will

Float On by Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor Who else is in need of a vacation?? I’d settle for a beach day. Just a little time away from the same old day-in, day-out. A water cleansing. Soul recharge. That’s on this week’s to-do list, for sure! There’s also plenty

Starting Monday, an additional 8,000 San Francisco city employees began shuffling back into the office at least four days a week as part of Mayor Daniel Lurie’s crusade to bring “pre-pandemic normal” back to a downtown that now resembles a very expensive ghost mall. Restaurants near City Hall are practically

We Wanna Send You to See BATS GPT: The Improvised AI Experiment on a Saturday in September! Welcome to BATS GPT, a one-of-a-kind long form improv experience where LIVE creativity meets AI! Each performance begins with ChatGPT setting the opening scene inspired by audience suggestions. The cast then dives headfirst into a

Late last month, Instagram scrubbed my account. Why? What were they wanting to achieve? A year of tip-toeing the line got me in trouble a couple of times—how much ass is too much? Why did visible dick print cross the line in one image and escape censorship in another? Why